Yo-kai Watch (Nintendo 3DS)

Prerelease Info Notes Bugs

Resources#

Unused GraphicsPlaceholders and more. Unused EventsWazzat made us forget about them. Unused TextUseless info that even Whisper was too lazy to look up. Unused ModelsModel renderer, do your thing! OdditiesHidden stuff and early leftovers that not even Yo-kai Lens can find. Development OversightsDid a Yo-kai cause any of this? Internal DataSo many skipped over entries...

Version Differences#

Regional DifferencesIncompatible QR Codes ensue! Revisional DifferencesLocalization standards were...bummed out it seems. Translation DifferencesSpringdale's currency complications. Demo VersionSome interesting stuff lurking inside.

Unused Audio#

To do: Check for more in ywsound.bscar. ywsounden.bscar has new audio added in international versions. Unused Summoning Songs (seq_01-08) for all the other tribes than Legendary (likely intended for the scrapped Summoning feature). The Charming Summon is baked in with the e123.dspadpcm file though, so that should still be covered.

Unused Music#

M00_MUON#

An audio file containing 12 seconds of silence, hence what the name in Japanese (無音 muon) means.

M18_jitensya_a3#

A duplicate of Time for a Bike Ride!, where it sounds identical to the used theme (M18_jitsensya_a5) except with slightly lower FLAC.

J11_sleep_long#

An extended version of the song that plays when the player goes to sleep. It may have been used in a cutscene.

Unused Sounds#

To do: Are any of these used in multiplayer?

title_call_en#

An alternate version of the title callout on its own without any accompanying sound effects, only found in the American version and doesn't have other-language equivalents.

It is heard in the intro and in the Character Selection screen, but mixed in with its audiofile and has a sound effect respectively. Strangely according to the localization file-naming scheme (where files are marked with _en or _engb at the end of stuff), there's no Japanese equivalent of this file.

sr0012_32728#

Unused ambience sound of a clock ticking. Likely intended for Timers & More?

tr0014.dspadpcm#

The audience cheering sounds separated from the two used jingles (tr0030 and tr0031). It would serve its purpose in later games, starting with Yo-kai Watch 2 when winning a good prize on the Triangle Lottery, for example.

tr0015.dspadpcm#

tw0025.dspadpcm#

Unused failure jingle?

Unused Textures#

Effect#

In yw1_a.fa\data\event\eff\_test there are more thant 66 files full of various placeholder effect textures.

The first one says "effect temporary" and the second says "board".

Characters#

Unseen Opened Eyes for Nate and Katie's Parents in Pajamas#

The models used for Nate and Katie's parents in pajamas (c104031/c105031/c201031/c202031) have an unused texture of them opening their eyes but they never seen waking up in-game.

Eddie and Bear's Expressions#

There are unseen expressions within Eddie (c102001/001.xi) and Bear's (c103001/001.xi) models. In the beginning cutscene they are seen conversing but from a distance. These textures were later used in Yo-kai Exercise No.1.

Unused Locations#

Yo-kai Watch 2 Locations#

There are a total of four unused maps consisting of locations that would appear in Yo-kai Watch 2. None of them have corresponding minimaps.

Chloro-Phil Good (t103i35)#

A store where you can buy medicine. Everything looks identical to the counterpart in Yo-kai Watch 2 except for the lighting.

Fortune Hospital 2F (t104i30)#

Though the stairway is blocked by a sign, there is an unused second floor for this location. The whole interior is finished, looking identical to the counterpart that would appear in Yo-kai Watch 2.

Toys iZ We (t105i29)#

The most unfinished map out of the four, where it has incomplete models and placeholder textures.

Sushi Springdale (t105i37)#

A cut sushi restaurant location that would later appear in Yo-kai Watch 2, looking identical. Strangely, there is concept art for the location documented.

Empty Maps#

t104i35#

An empty map with just a black square in the center. According to the "i" and "4" in the filename, it likely a leftover of a scrapped interior originally intended to appear in Downtown Springdale, coming after all the other locations except for the Springdale Business Tower and Springdale Central Station internally.

From Yo-kai Watch 2, this spot would be occupied by Café Shanista, which appears as a building as an exterior in the previous game, albeit unnamed.

t201g00#

An empty map, which according to the message.txt file accidentally included in the mobile port, was actually intended to be the Yo-kai World as an overworld map. From Yo-kai Watch 2, that spot is occupied by Old Springdale, with a similar file-naming scheme (ex. t2_____).

template#

An almost empty folder, just with a file called "template_mapenv.bin"